Anjaneya appears in Sacrificial Fire
Research Article Written by London Swaminathan
Date: 31 May 2017
Time uploaded in London- 18-13
Post No. 3959
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In my two articles about Soma rasa (please see the links below) I have given the following points:
Foreigners account about the identification of Soma plant is wrong. Had they really identified it, they would have got the patent right and exported millions of bottles of Soma rasa (Soma juice) and made billions of dollars. Even today Muslims of Afghanistan cultivate opium and send them to different parts of the world and make loads of money.
Now I have got more interesting details from Zend Avesta, Zoroastrians Veda, and the ninth Mandala of Rig Veda. Before giving the details let me place some more arguments:
1.We knew for sure that the Vedic Soma Yaga was done for thousands of years. Is there any culture or race in the world which has a narcotic drug like this for such a long time and survived in good health?
2.If it is really a narcotic drug, the community or the race would have had its natural death.
3.Narcotic drugs lead to depression, violence etc. Has any one used drugs and avoided such after effects? In London, every week one youth is shot dead in drug related violence. In the Vedic literature, we have never seen any violence after drinking Soma rasa against one another.
- Is there any community in the world who sang about a plant and its juice and preserved the hymns for such a long time?
5.If Aryans came from outside why don’t we see Swayamvara, Mahabharata type of warfare, Asvamedha/Raja suya yajnas, caste systems etc. outside India?
The answer is simple. Soma rasa is not a narcotic drug. It is a rare plant which gave tremendous energy and boosted one’s health and increased one’s life span. It is in Zend Avesta. Vedic Hindus were the sons of the soil. They did not come from outside. When they went out of India they spread their culture.
Read the interesting points given below:-
In the Haoma (Soma) Yasht (hymn), Zarathustra(Zoroaster) seeing the Haoma (Soma) plant addresses it in these words:
“O man! who art thou? In this physical world, I find you to be best, beautiful and of eternal life” and Haoma answers,
“I am who he wards off disease, squeeze me for drinking and chant my praises”.
In another place it is mentioned those who thus squeezed it and drank the squeezed liquid and chanted its praises are blessed with the best of health and progeny”
The above Zend Avesta verse gives us the following points
1.Soma gives long life 2.Soma gives health 3. Soma helps to get good children and 4. Soma wars off diseases.
I have already given what the Tamil inscription said about it: It purified the mind. In short it gave physical, mental and spiritual benefits.
Now more interesting comes from the three Vedas:
Ninth Mandala of the Rig Veda contains all the hymns on Pavamana Soma. Nowhere in the world we see Mantras on narcotic drug in a religious book; so it is not a narcotic drug. If it is a drug like this the seers would have condemned it. Moreover, whether they condemn or not, the race would have exterminated itself by this time. But we see a continuous religion, Santana /Eternal religion for over 5000 years without any violence. So it is not a halucinative drug.
The Vedic seers praised the Soma as ‘The King’, ‘the guest’ etc.
Krishna seen in Yaga Fire
1000 year Sacrifice
Foreigners were baffled and got confused when they saw 1000 yearlong Soma sacrifice. They couldn’t understand it. Normally it lasted for 12 years but they talked about 1000 year Yajna as well. Where in the world one drinks drug or alcohol for 12 years and survive? So it was not an intoxicating drug, but a miraculous and a rare herb brought by an “Eagle”. When we read that it was available in Iran (Zoroaster) and in Gangetic and Indus valley (Rig Veda and Yajur Veda) we are amazed at the influence of a single plant on such a vast geographical area. Taittiriya Samhita of Yajur Veda deals with Soma Yaga in Cantos 6 and 8.
Moreover, it is not a drug is proved from the rituals that were practised. Following is the ritual:
The first stage is buying the Soma plant with a calf which was later snatched away later from the seller. Because he same sellers bring them back the Soma we knew for sure it was only a ritual and they got good money.
If I am cheated by a business man I would not go back to him and would warn other colleagues as well. Foreigners could not explain why Soma was “brought by an eagle”. They were struggling hard and as usual wrote all the rubbish.
The second stage is it is placed on a cart and taken in procession like a honoured guest. Because they considered it a divine one.
The next stage is the pressing of Soma plant and getting the juice.
In the last stage they gave it to different Gods in cups that were named differently.
Any person who thinks logically knew that it was not a narcotic drug. If it is they would not name different cups and wait patiently. Riots would break out to grab the drug. Moreover, the same kick they could get from umpteen sources such as alcohol etc.
If it is a drug, no idiot would pour it into sacrificial fire and “waste it” for thousands of years. We knew that Soma Yajnas were conducted until very recently but with alternate plants.
If it is a hallucinate substance, 12 year long sacrifices can be 12 year long orgy of drug addicts. So all the foreign accounts are half baked write ups or deliberate propaganda against Vedic religion.
The soma plant increases fertility (YV 6-5-8-5) according to Yajur Veda.
Radha and Krishna appears in Vedic Fire Sacrifice
In the Atharva Veda
The largest number of Atharvana Vedic hymns belong to the category of material well- being which include prayers for long life (100 years), property, architecture, astronomy ,well-being of trees, creatures, animals , for timely rain, avoiding unforeseen injuries etc. This shows their positive attitude.
Muujavat, the mythical home of the Soma plant in the Rig Veda, is shown as a distant place in the Atharva Veda; so by the time of Athrva veda, Soma was not easily available, almost extinct.
With the use of Soma plant we hear only the positive effects. It is unfortunate that the Hindus lost it very long ago.
Confusion about Vedic Soma Plant | Tamil and Vedas
https://tamilandvedas.com/2013/05/05/confusion-about-vedic-soma-plant/
5 May 2013 – Confusion about Vedic Soma Plant Soma was the famous plant used by the Vedic priests to make juice for the fire sacrifice. The whole of Ninth …
Madurai Temple Tunnel and Soma Plant of Vedas … – Tamil and Vedas
https://tamilandvedas.com/…/madurai-temple-tunnel-and-soma-pla…
23 Apr 2017 – Madurai Temple Tunnel and Soma Plant of Vedas (Post No. 3844) … Soma Plant. I read your “Confusion about Vedic Soma Plant” article.
–Subham–